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The problem
• According to the Centers for Disease
Control, approximately one out of every
twenty-five patients develop a healthcare
related infection (U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, 2018)
• Patients who acquire infections from
surgery spend, on average, an additional
6.5 days in the hospital, are five times
more likely to be readmitted after discharge
and twice as likely to die (PatientCareLink,
2018)
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